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Coal mines have been killing miners at a rate that works out to an average of 100 per month for the past 100 years. Sometimes they die in explosions and fire like the Mannington disaster of 1968 that killed 78 (and Monongah, 1907. 307 dead: Centralia. 1947. 111 dead: West Frankfort, 1951, 119 dead: or Benwood, 1924, 119 dead: or Eccles, 1914. 183 dead...
...then there was Mannington-at 5:30 in the morning on November 20, 1968, when one of the world's largest mines, belonging to the world's largest coal company, blew up: 78 men died. The TV cameras came back to West Virginia. What they recorded, millions of people saw: the widows: the old miners, gasping with black lung; the union president. Tony Boyle, praising Consolidation Coal Company: the governor of West Virginia, surmising that disasters were inevitable in coal mining... it was too much to swallow, and people who had never thought once about coal mining thought twice about...
Died. Howard D. Mannington, 64, henchman of Warren Gamaliel Harding's presidential campaign, lessee of the Ohio Gang's ill-famed "little green house in K Street"; of a lingering illness; in Columbus, Ohio...
...called Ohio Gang originated with Ohio's "Big Four" politicians: Mark Hamia, J. B. Foraker, George B. Cox, Charles Dick. Later additions were Harry M. Daugherty, Guy D. Goff, Warren G. Harding, Howard Mannington, Charles R. Forbes, Jesse Smith, E. Mont Reily, Daniel Richard Crissinger, George Busby Christian...
...testified that there was a ring with which he had worked which secured illegal withdrawals of whiskey?some 50,000 or 60,000 cases?and divided some $200,000 in graft, part of which had gone to close friends of the Attorney General, including Jesse Smith and one Howard Mannington...
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